The TRADE 61 - Q3 2019 | Page 95

[ D ATA ] SPREADS & EBBO LIQUIDITY Based on fragmented European stocks There is an overall trend of market spreads widening over the last 12 months, although they have stablised over the Q4 to Q1 2019 period. The downward trend in liquidity. continued into the beginning of 2019. Spread (BPS) Avg 10BPS Liquidity (€ ‘000) Q4 2018 5.39 €755.98 Q1 2019 5.39 €732.47 EUROPEAN MARKET BREAKDOWN Major European Indices MIB and IBEX. Another exception was Chi-x on both OMX-S and IBEX where it made small gains. The SMI has been excluded from the figures for Q3 2019 due to the restrictions imposed on EU MTF trading of Swiss stock. The market share figures show a flight to quality where the primary venues showed large percent- age gains over the period on all markets, with the exception of IBEX, where there was a slight reduc- tion. There were reductions on MTFs across most markets, the exceptions being Aquis on CAC, DAX, Q3 2019 (change on Q2 2019) FTSE CAC DAX MIB OMX-S IBEX Primary 1 67.42% 2.83% 1 69.20% 1.38% 1 71.75% 1.66% 1 76.39% 2.31% 1 67.06% 2.24% 1 70.83% -0.55% CHIX 2 15.94% -0.82% 2 15.52% -0.11% 2 15.44% 0.12% 2 11.36% -0.67% 2 19.19% 0.26% 2 14.49% 0.75% 5.37% -0.49% 3 4.63% -0.85% 3 4.81% -1.17% 3 5.83% -1.21% 3 6.23% -0.25% 6.17% -1.06% 4.46% -1.11% 3.21% -0.77% 4.08% -1.11% 5.55% -0.52% 3.74% 0.28% 3.73% 0.19% 4.23% 0.31% 3.84% -0.18% 2.90% 0.56% BATE TRQX AQXE 3 5.93% -0.84% 7.04% -1.16% 3.67% -0.02% 3 Issue 61 // TheTradeNews.com // 95